The Bolsheviks: October/November Revolution 1917

-Vladimir Lenin returns from exile in April-Germans helped assist him by giving him a train and passage through Finland-States April Theses denouncing the war-Kronstadt Mutiny: 20,000 armed sailors took control of Petrograd(St. Petersburg) and demanded the soviet take power-Kornilov Affair: The Bolsheviks are seen as defenders of Petrograd -Kornilov threatened to attack the city-Bolsheviks were led by Trotsky (military leader)-Lenin was in charge of the Petrograd uprising (it was bloodless)-The Aurora cruiser fired one blank shell on the winter palace

Summary: Much like the Tsar, the Provisional Government was growing unpopular with with the Russian population. With the help of the Kronstadt Mutiny and the Kornilov Affair, The Bolsheviks and Lenin were able to take over the Provisional Government for the better of the people.